Don't use single quotes as quotes in command-line parsing on windows?

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Sat Nov 7 16:43:24 GMT 2009


Gordon Tyler пишет:
> On 11/7/2009 11:19 AM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> So the point is that it doesn't have to be interpreted that way. I've
>> stayed out of the debate for a bit to see what responses we would get.
>>
>> Obviously I feel that "bzr foo 'ab cd'" should be treated as a single
>> string as it does elsewhere (otherwise I wouldn't have implemented it
>> that way.)
> 
> As I said on the merge proposal, the shell is responsible for quoting. 
> The tool shouldn't be implementing it.

Gordon, probably it's too hard.

The main purpose of John's patch is to support globs in the command-line 
on Windows. Standard Windows shell does not expand globs. So bzr has to 
do this itself. But to do it properly bzr should know about quotes. Do 
you see?




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